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DNA test gurney
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what does DNA stand for? | Deoxyribose nucleic acid |
| what is a short length of DNA called | gene |
| what is DNA made up of | a long chain of nucleotides |
| what is a nucleotide | a nucleotide is a phosphate group bonded to a deoxyribose sugar bonded to and organic base (adenine, thymine, guanine, or cytosine) |
| what does DNA make | Proteins |
| what bases go with what base | thymine with adenine, cytosine with guanine |
| what are the steps of DNA when a cell splits | 1. the week hydrogen bonds between the nucleotides need to be broken, 2. hydrogen bonds break into two strands and the strand matches with free nucleotides, 3. now their are two identical strands from one |
| what is the first stage in DNA replication? | theDNA double helix is unwound and separated into two strands |
| what is the second step in DNa replication | free nucleotides attach to their opposite nucleotide and make a copy of the strand |
| what is the name of the enzyme that unwinds the DNA molecule during replication? | helicase |
| what is the name of the enzyme that adds new nucleotides to the daughter strands that are created? | Rna Polymerase |
| what is protein made up of? | amino acids |
| what are five carbons called | pentose |
| what is the making of a strand of DNA called | transcription |
| a triplet of bases on tRNA | anticodon |
| what is another name for protein | polypeptide |